Machine for filling cartridge-belts.



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MACHINE FOR FILLING CARTRIDGE BELTS.

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lan seitens earner caricia WILHELM SONNBERG, F CHARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOB T0 DEUTSCHE y WAFFEN UND MUNITONSFABRIKEN, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

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Application filed .Tune 26, 1912.

vented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Filling Cartridge-Belts, of

which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a machine for illing cartridge belts for automatic small arms and machine guns. The machines of this kind of which 1 am aware are only utilizable for filling belts, in which the sepamachine engaging in their eyes for the purpose of retaining and feeding the belt,

Now the present invention has for'its object to provide a machine which is also suitable tor lling belts which consist of two bands of fabric woven or stitched together at uniform intervals.

Jn'embodiment of, the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 illustrates the machine in plan. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection thereof on the line 2-2 in Fig. l, the belt-retaining levers not being shown in section, however. Fig. 3 is a partial right hand side elevation. Figs. i to G are respectively a plan and longitudinal sections corresponding to Figs. 1 and 2 showing the machine indifferent positions. Fig.l 7 is a cross section on the line 1L-"4 in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a vertical section of the pin carrier on the line 8 8 in Fig. 1. 9 a vertical section of the cartridge slide on the line 9--9 in Fig. 1. Fig. 10 is a' vertical cross section on the line 10-10 in Fig. 2, and Fig. 11 diagrammatically illustrates the order of the positions of the machine.

In casing 1 a shaft 2 rotatable by means a handle 9?' or in some other suitable manner is mounted and upon 1t four guide rollers 3, t, and 6 are fixed; by means of receases or grooves on the peripheries these rollers control the slides and levers arranged above them. The roller 3 produces the reci rooating movement of the slide 7 parallel ,with the axis. of the shaft and the roller 6 Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5,1916.

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produces the movement of the slide 8 by means of inter-engaging pins and grooves 9, and 11, 12; the roller 4 produces the rotation of the lever 13, pivoted to the slide 7 and ending in a jaw 40, about its pivot 14 by means of the pin 16 mounted in a second arm on thi" lever which engages 1n a groove 17 on the roller 4. The arm 18 of the second retaining lever 19', which is provided with a roller 21 is constantly pressed onto the periphery of the roller 5 by means of a. spring 20; the diameter of the roller 5 diminishes slightly in the right hand direction as. shown in Fig. 5, so that when the Aroller 21 rests on this reduced portion the retaining lever 19 is rocked upward about its pivot 22 by the spring 20.

The shaft 2 also carries the cam plate 23 which acts on a roller 24 of a slide 25 vertically displaceable in the casing 1; this slide is constantly pressed downward by a spring 2G and its upper tapered end 27 passes through an opening in the table 28 (Figs. 2, 5 and 7) The retaining levers and slides cooperate in such a manner that the slide 8 and the retaining lever 19 on the one hand and the slide and the retaining lever 13 on the other hand temporarily hold the belt between them, displace it toward the right hand or release it.

The crank 29 is mounted on the right hand end of the shaft 2 (Figs. 3 and 6) and with its pin 30 and a slide block 42 engages in a slot 8l in a slide 32 which is horizontally displaceable beneath the table 28 in, the casing 1. This slide 32 reciprocates, at right angles to the axis of the shaft, the pin 33 serving for opening and spreading out the pockets in the belt and also the cartridge slide 34.' The cartridge slide removes the cartridge which for the time being is the lowest in the reservoir and inserts it into the open pocket.

this direction. The pin 33 is therefore dis- 100 placed by the slide 8 parallel with the axis of the shaft and by the slide 32 perpendicuand is constantly pressed outward by a' spring 3!) (Fig. 9). It is also acted upon by a guide lever 43 which temporarily holds it inthe right hand end position. v

The operation of' the machine 1s as follows: l'n the first pocket ot' the cartridge belt 41 to be filled a cartridge P is first of all inserted by hand. The machine is then Acaused to occupy position t (Fig. 11) by rotating thc handle 9, the cartridge P contained in the belt being arranged on the left hand side of the jaw 40 of.' the lever 13 and the belt located left thereof inserted between the lever 19 which is now raised and the slide S. By rotating the handle 9 to the left the lever 19 is pressed against the slide 8 thereby clamping the belt between them (position b). The two slides 7 and 8 then proceed toward the right until the slide 7 and the lever 13 have reached the right hand end position when the slide 25 moves downward (position c). f )Vhile the slide 8, the lever 19 and the slide i5 retain their position the lever 13 rises (position d) returns with the slide 7 to the lett hand end position (position e), and again descends whereby at the same time the slide 25 again rises (position f). The belt is therefore now clamped at two places between the grippers, that is to say at one place (between two adjacent pockets) between the lever 123 and the slide 25 and at another place (between thc next adjaccin pockets) between the slide 8 and the lever 19 and the jaw 40 of tlie lever 13 seizes the first cartridge P from above. In the further rotation of the handle the slide S with the lever 19 completes the right hand movement and simultaneously the pln 33 enters the belt pocket located between the two partitions held by the grippers and opens this pocket (position g). When the pin has fully entered the pocket the slide 32 displacing the pinphas reached its end position in which the cartridge slide 3l, which up to now has been retained by its guide lever 43, springs forward so thatit is now in alinement with the pin 33 (Figs. 1 and 3) )Vhcn the slide 39. moves back the lowest cartridge is inserted from the reser`- voir 35 in the pocket spread out by the pin which simultaneously withdraws from this pocket. The grippers and corresponding slides retain their position (position r) and therefore hold the belt firmly between them immediately beside the pocket to be filled (Fig. 4). After the slide 32 has reached its end position and the cartridge is therefore inserted in the pocket, the cartridge slide 34 is pressed out of the path of and again descends and clamps the belt on the slide 8 (position ZJ). The operation then recommences. The positions L and it are the same with the difference that in position a a fresh belt has been introduced into the machine. The cartridge belt is therefore se curely and exactlv held during the introduction of the pin and the cartridge and after a pocket has been filled it is :fed forwardi the necessary amount. J

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A machine for filling cartridge belts, comprising cooperating grippers adapted to clamp the belt between them and to reciprocate in the direction of feed.

2. In a machine for filling cartridge beits, coperating means adapted to clamp the belt between them, and means to reciprocate said clamping means in-the direction of feed.

3. A machine for filling cartridge belts comprising cooperating grippers adapted to clamp the belt between. them at both siiles of a pocket and to reciprocate in the direction of feed. y

4. In a machine for filling cartridge belts, cooperating means adapted to clamp the belt between them, means adapted to grip the belt around a pocket, and means to reciprocate said clamping means and said gripping means in the direction of feed.

5. A machine for filling cartridge belts comprising reciprocating and coperating belt feeding grippers adapted to clamp the belt between them during their feeding stroke. Y

6. In amachine for filling cartridge belts1 means adapted to grip the belt around a pocket, and reciprocating belt .feeding means adapted to clamp the belt betweenthem.

'7. In a machine for filling cartridge belts, means for opening the belt pockets, and cooperating means adapted to clamp the belt between them at both sides of a. pocket during the opening of same and means for recip# rocating said clamping means in the direction of feed.

8. In a machine for filling cartridge belts, means for introducing cartridges into the belt pockets, and coperating means adapted to clamp the belt between them at both sides of a pocket during the introduction of a cartridge into same and means for reciprocating said clamping means in the direction of feed.

9. In a machine for filling cartridge belts, means for opening the vbelt pockets, means for introducing cartridges into the opened` belt pockets, and coperating means adapted h pocket opening means and of a cartridge into said pocket ai'idmeans for reciprocating said clamping means in the direction of feed.

10. ln a machine for filling cartridge belts, meansv for opening the belt pockets, means for introducing cartridges into the opened belt pockets, and cooperating reciprocating belt feeding means adapted to clamp the belt between them at both sides of a pocket during the insertion of said pocket opening means and of a cartridge into a pocket.

l1. ln a machine for filling cartridge belts, means for opening the belt pockets, means for introducing cartridges into the opened pockets, and cooperating means adapted to clamp the belt 'between 'them during the opening of a pocket and during the insertion of a cartridge into said opened pocket, and means for reciprocating said clamping means in the direction 'of feed..

12. ln a machine for lling cartridge belts, means for opening the belt pockets, means for introducing cartridges into the opened belt Toccliets, and cooperating reciprocating belt :feeding means adapted to clamp the belt between them during the feeding of the vbelt and during the insertion ofA said pocket opening means and of a cartridge into a pocket.

13. in a machine for filling cartridge belts, means for opening the belt pockets, means for introducing cartridges intothe opened belt pocket, and cooperating reciprocating belt feeding means adapted to clamp the belt between them at both sides of a pocket during the feeding of the belt and during the insertion of said pocket opening means and of a cartridge into a pocket.

let. in a machine for filling cartridge belts, a base member, a member pivoted to said base member, means adapted to presssaid pivoted member upon said base membeigto clamp the belt between both members, :tud means adapted to reciprocate said base member in the direction of feed,

15. ln a .machine filling cartridge lide, nie-.ins to reciprocate said slide perpai .icularly to the direction of feed, and a member cooperating with said slide to clamp the belt.

16. in a machine. for filling cartridge belts, a slide, means to reciprocate said slide pcrpendicularly to the e irection of feed, and a pivotcd member coperating with said slide to clamp the belt.

17. in a machine for filling cartridge belts, a. slide, means to reciprocate said slide perpendicnlarly to the direction of feed, a

member coperating with said slide to clamp the belt. and means to rer recate said member in the direction testi.

i8. in a machine for filing cartridgey belts, f. slide, means reciprocate said slide perpendicularly to the direction of feed, and

a member cooperating with said slide to clamp the belt and having a aw adapted to grip the belt around a pocket.

19. A machine for lilling cartridge belts comprising a slide'displaceable in the direction of movement of the belt, a gripper pivoted to said slide, a vertically displacef able member, a second slide carrying a pivoted member displaceable in the direction of movement of the belt and adapted to grip the belt at the pockets.

20. A machine for filling cartridge belts comprising'a slide dispiaceable in the direction of movement of the belt, a gripper pivoted to said slide, a vertically displaceable member, a second slide carrying a 'pivoted member displaceable in the direction of movement of the belt and adapted to grip the belt at the pockets, a third slide, a member mounted on said third slide to open the belt pocket-s, a hopper and a cartridge slide for feeding cartridges from said hopper into said pockets.

21. ln a machine for filling cartridge belts, belt gripping means comprising a slide displaceable in the direction of feed, a coperating lever pivoted to said slide and displaceable thereby in thg same direction, said slide and lever acting together to clamp the belt between them and feed it during their displacement.

22. In a machine for filling cartridge belts, belt feeding and gripping means, comprising a slide displaceable in the direction of feed, a lever pivotedlto said slide and a vertically displaceable slide coperating With said lever.

23. In a -machine for filling cartridge belts,belt feeding and gripping means, com prising a slide displaceable in the direction of feed, a lever pivoted thereto and formed at one end With a gripping jaw adapted to grip thebelt around a pocket, and a. vertically displaceable slide adapted to cooperate With said gripping jaw.

24, In a machine for filling cartridge belts, belt feeding means comprising a slide and a coperating lever pivoted thereto, a pocl et-opening pin displaceable by said slide in the direction of movement of the belt, a second slide adapted to advance said pin at substantially right angles to such movement to open the pockets on the belt, a cartridge slideadapted to be advanced by -said second slide to insert cartridges in the s rotary elotl'lents;7 a pivoted gripper carried :r cartridge slide for feeding cartridges into by one o said slides und adapted tocosaid pockets. 10 operato therewith to move the bolt, :L second in tesimony whereof I have affixed my pivoted gripper carried by the other of Said signature. in presence of two Witnesses. slides und adapted to hohl the bolt during VILHELM SONNBERG. determined periods, :1n addition-u1 slide, u XVitnesses: member mounted on Said additional slide Rom-:rxr MIGHALSKI, and adapted to open the belt pockets, and HENRY HASPER. w 

